Labour leader says the current situation is “the government’s mess, and it’s for them to sort it out”.
All election campaigns boil down to either “safety first” or “time for a change”. So if he isn’t meeting his five pledges, Sunak must give voters a reason to fear taking a chance on Labour.
The tentative signs are that the Shadow Chancellor is switching from an emphasis on industrial strategy and “green prosperity” to one on housebuilding and planning reform.
The A list and its successors haven’t kept a golden generation out of Parliament. Many of those who might have made it up aren’t putting themselves forward for selection in the first place.
The waves of strikes we are seeing punish patients, children, and commuters. Acceding to the inflated pay demands of the unions would punish us all by making our inflation problem worse.
The collapse of a business empire revealed an extraordinary web of corruption which spanned British politics, and saw the leader of Newcastle council jailed.
Even were this not the case, such ratings only weakly correlate to general election outcomes. There is no getting around the hard work of repairing the Party’s standing with voters.
The UK still a country prioritises freedom. But its citizens are far more deferential to the state than their American cousins – and the language of freedom is far less ideological and far more personal.
He has already won back large numbers of voters since he entered Number 10, and both the polls and the focus groups confirm that many more are prepared to wait longer before making up their minds.
The committee’s report was thorough, but the sentence is disproportionate.
Many of Tory MPs will be sick and tired of the self-reverential obsequies attached to the Committee’s deliberation and verdict – and of the hysteria, hate, vitriol and venom directed at a man without whom many would never have had the opportunity to serve in Parliament.
Sarwar says there will be no referendum on Scotland’s future if Labour wins the general election.
Party activists could be forgiven for wondering if he would now rather have Starmer in Downing Street than Sunak.
If the Government doesn’t present a proper plan for transition to commonhold, Sir Keir Starmer will take the mantle of champion of homeownership.
The Economic Activities of Public Bodies (Overseas Activities) Bill will ensure that foreign affairs remains the business of Parliament, not town halls which ought to be focusing on public services.